Quotes By Frank Sinatra

I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps.

People who make a living off other people's fortunes or misfortunes are parasites.

A friend to me has no race, no class and belongs to no minority. My friendships were formed out of affection, mutual respect and a feeling of having something strong in common. These are eternal values that cannot be racially classified. This is the way I look at race.

What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can.

I believe that God knows what each of us wants and needs. It's not necessary for us to make it to church on Sunday to reach Him. You can find Him anyplace.

May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.

People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.

The cigarettes you light one after another won't help you forget her.

Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.

For nobody else, gave me thrill-with all your faults, I love you still. It had to be you, wonderful you, it had to be you.

Card players have a saying: "It's all right to play if you keep your eyes on the deck" - which is another way of saving, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."

Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.

You can be the most artistically perfect performer in the world, but an audience is like a broad - if you're indifferent, Endsville.

When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.

Fresh air makes me throw up. I can't handle it. I'd rather be around three Denobili cigars blowing in my face all night.

I'm just a singer, Elvis was the embodiment of the whole American culture.

To me religion is a deeply personal thing in which man and God go it alone together, without the witch doctor in the middle. The witch doctor tries to convince us that we have to ask God for help, to spell out to him what we need, even to bribe him with prayer or cash on the line.

I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.

For my money Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business.

I get an audience personally involved in a song - because I'm involved myself. It's not something I do deliberately: I can't help myself. If the song is a lament at the loss of love, I get an ache in my gut. I feel the loss myself and I cry out the loneliness, the hurt and the pain that I feel.